The thermal Casimir effect in lipid bilayer tubules
D. S. Dean, R. R. Horgan
Abstract
We calculate the thermal Casimir effect for a dielectric tube of radius R and thickness delta formed from a membrane in water. The method uses a field-theoretic approach in the grand canonical ensemble. The leading contribution to the Casimir free energy behaves as -kBTL kappaC/R giving rise to an attractive force which tends to contract the tube. We find that kappaC ~ 0.3 for the case of typical lipid membrane t-tubules. We conclude that except in the case of a very soft membrane this force is insufficient to stabilize such tubes against the bending stress which tends to increase the radius.
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